Due to his illness HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Chai ben Margalit Yosef has begun giving some of his shiurim via radio broadcast, unable to continue his rigid schedule as he battles a life-threatening disease.

The news of the 66-year-old rav’s terminal illness recently became public, and while he and his father, Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita maintained a strained relationship for a number of years, Rav Yaakov was recently at his father’s home for brochos.

The Shas-affiliated Kol Berama Radio is cooperating with the rav, airing some of his shiurim to permit the listeners to continue benefiting from his words of Torah.

At a shiur last week, Rav Yaakov told participants that without tefilos and Chassdei Shomayim his chances of recovery are slim.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)